Editorial
The ANC cannot be allowed to block the cleanup of the state-capture rot
22 December 2019 - 00:02
State capture is more than just the theft of obscene amounts of public money, although the close to R500bn that has been stolen would surely have gone a long way towards easing the socioeconomic backlogs that blight our landscape. The more insidious aspect of state capture involved the hollowing-out of those very institutions that would have played a crucial role in bringing the looters to book and recovering their ill-gotten gains...
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